Improvement in nipple-guards for fire-arms



HILL & HAY.

Gun Lock.

No 96,112;v Patented Oct. 26, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 96,112, dated October 26,1869.

*dov- IMPROVEMENT IN NIPPLE-GUARDS FOR FIRE-ARMS.

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification This invention relates to improvements in gun-looks,

and has for its object to `provide an improvement in the construction of nipple-guard attachments for the protection of the nipples, and the caps thereon, from the accidental striking or discharging of the hammer; also to protect the caps from being lost or accidentally thrown ofi' the nipples or getting wet.

The invention consists in the application to the barrel, around the nipple, of arais'ed projection, over which the hinged cap will close snugly, when closedover the nipple, so as to wholly enclose the said nipple for better protection.'

Figure l represents a longitudinal section through the gun-lock, showing a part ofthe present invention in elevation, and

Figure 2 represents a transverse section on the line xx, also showing the said projection in elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingI parts.

The hinged guard-cap A, which closes over the nipple when the hammer is raised, and the devices for operating it, are similar' in construction and arrangement to the same devices as represented in a patent heretofore granted to ns, and need not, therefore, be described.

The present invention consist-s, simply, in the combination, with the gun-barrel and the cap A, of thev raised projection B, for enclosing the nipple'wholly when the cap A is closed over the nipple, underan arrangement whereby the cap iits snugly over' the edges of the part B, to make as close joints as possible, for the exclusion of water, dust, Ste.

ln this, as in the previous case above alluded t-o, the pulling of the trigger causes the caps to move away from over the nipple, previous to the discharge of the hammer, and the cap springs back again on the n ipp'ie as soon as the hammer is raised.`

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the barrel and the nipple-guard cap A, of a raised projection, B, substantially as specified.

The above specification of our invention signed by us, this 16th day of August, 1869.

R. D. HAY.

J. M HILL Witnessesz' THOS. G. PENN, AARON BUCKLEY. 

